A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest civilizations imagined the Earth. Known as the Imago Mundi, this Babylonian world ...

Imagine a time when the world was flat, surrounded by vast, unknowable waters, and ruled by the whims of powerful deities. For the ancient Babylonians, this wasn't mere fantasy, but their perceived ...

People live in a world of cities; reflecting on ancient models of the city as a human phenomenon offers important lessons about today's culture; an opportunity to survey the breadth of the ancient ...